I posted this in response to a post on GigaOM, but it was such a long comment, I felt that it was worthy as a post on it’s own.
The workloads of social networking sites fall mostly into the ‘read lots, write once’ class (most of the web exists within this paradigm.) Regardless of the database [...]
A bit of last-minute news, but I’ll be on a panel at SXSW Interactive: “Using GPS & Location to Enhance Social Networking”.
First there were social networks, and then there were location-based social networks, and now GPS and navigation-enhanced mobile social networks. This panel will explore how these emerging platforms integrate with existing social networks [...]
Courtesy of juhani, here’s a listing of parties during next week’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
Original posting from http://www.xihalife.com/b/juhani/1540
I’m attending the Mashable/Chi.mp party, but that’s it so far.
List is duplicated below…
.. or, the de-evolution and re-evolution of communication.
Online communications has had a strange and varied history. I remember chatting to multiple users at the same time on diversi-dial services back in the 80’s. These were essentially apple II computers, filled with modem cards so that up to *eight* people could talk to each other in [...]